Peter G. Fletcher

Peter G. Fletcher
Born	1936
Died	1996
Occupation	Musician

Peter G. Fletcher (9 January 1936 – 21 May 1996) was a noted British orchestral and choral conductor, music educator and author.

Fletcher finished his early music training as an organ scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge under the tutelage of Thurston Dart and Geraint Jones. Subsequently, he was in the British army as a band master. Peter Fletcher completed his National Service as conductor of the Royal Corps of Signals Band at Catterick Camp.

After leaving the army, Fletcher taught for two years at Uppingham School before being appointed Music Advisor to the East Riding of Yorkshire in conjunction with organist of Beverley Minster. At the age of 30, after 4 years at Beverley, he left Yorkshire to become Staff Inspector of Music with the Inner London Education Authority in 1966. During his 7-year tenure with the ILEA he established the Centre for Young Musicians, the Special Music Course at Pimlico School, and the foundation course for musicians at Kingsway FE College. He was also conductor of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra: one or two recordings remain from this period, notably The Viola Suite and Suite Hébräique by Ernest Bloch with Daniel Daggers as soloist, for the Cameo Classics label.

In 1973 Fletcher emigrated to Canada to take over the chairmanship of the Music Department at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the invitation of Henry D. Hicks. At Dalhousie, he was conductor of the Dalhousie Chorale and the Dalhousie Orchestra, and with the chorale gave performances of several large works including the St. John Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach and Belshazzar's Feast by William Walton. As department chair, Fletcher was a key figure in bringing to Halifax William Tritt, Carol van Feggelen, Jefferson Morris and Phillipe Djokic, who all enriched the musical life of the port city for decades. Fletcher was also one of the principal founders of the Dalhousie Opera Company, and over several seasons he conducted the Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.

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